When you're filming, do you see the camera an extension of your consciousness? Not so much an extension of my consciousness as an extension of my fingers! Like when a jazz musician plays a saxophone — the instrument is an extension of the fingers. And fingers are transmitters — extensions of your mind, your heart, your whole body and everything that you are. That's what my camera becomes. That's interesting, because even when you're not in your films the audience can feel your presence quite strongly. Yes, through the way I'm filming and what I'm filming. One who knows how to, as they say, "read" the images, can tell everything about me. Godard, and some other artists in France at that time, were very political in the sense that they sided with political parties. To me, real politics are those that have nothing to do with political systems or parties. You know, Sartre and his buddies sided with communists and socialists. But my politics are like those of the Beat Generation, or even hippies, the Woodstock Generation, or artists like Buckminster Fuller, John Cage. They changed society without politics, in a completely different way. They changed the style of living — the way people lived and behaved — with no violence, and no political parties. I would say that they changed this country more than any politician. And, you know, what's happening now in the sciences, and the arts, and on the Internet, and discussions about saving the planet and solar energy — it doesn't come from political parties! So that's my critique of Godard. ...I believe that we are more than the flesh, that we are infinite, and that we don't know much about what we are. I believe, really, in the soul, and in the unknown — I wouldn't call it God. In India they don't call it God. I'm more in agreement with Sufis in India and Taoists in Japan. Before Christianity took hold, by force, Lithuania was pantheist. I'm pantheist in a way: I believe I'm part of nature, with all the animals and trees and everything. - triple t from Bookmarklet